At CES 2023, carbon nanomaterial developer Canatu and Covestro will showcase a joint lidar heater demonstrator using flexible transparent film heaters, thermoplastic polymers, and film insert molding processing.
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Fleets and TrucksMachine Control & RoboticsOff RoadOn RoadPublic Transportation
Parallel Domain accelerates AI ‘super training’ with synthetic data
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThe company is on a mission to reimagine how AI learns by using synthetic data critical for scaling an autonomous future more quickly.
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ADASDriverless CarsMachine Control & RoboticsOff RoadOn Road
TriEye pitches short-wave infrared as low-cost sensing option
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThe company’s proprietary SEDAR platform uses SWIR to offer 2D imaging and 3D determinative depth sensing at what it says is a fraction of the cost and complexity of other sensor systems such as lidar.
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Fleets and TrucksMachine Control & RoboticsOff RoadSelf-Driving Trucks
Scania and Rio Tinto Partner on Autonomous Mining Trucks
by Charles Choiby Charles ChoiSwedish truckmaker Scania is teaming up with mining corporation Rio Tinto to develop autonomous haul…
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ConstructionMachine Control & RoboticsOff Road
Topnet Live, a key enabler for machine control
by IAV Staffby IAV StaffTopcon is delivering its state-of-the-art, Topnet Live RTK correction services to a wide array of customers in precision machine control.
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Driverless CarsFleets and TrucksMachine Control & RoboticsOff RoadOn Road
Ouster’s new REV7 lidar sensors have double the range
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostPowered by a breakthrough L3 digital lidar chip with back-side illumination, its OS range comes with precision and reliability advances and a new OSDome hemispheric view model for industrial automation, crowd analytics, and security applications.
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Magna to help Cartken scale its autonomous delivery robot fleet
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostProduction at a Magna facility in Michigan has begun, with additional models for different use cases expected off the same platform, as Cartken’s customer base expands with applications like Grubhub’s on the Ohio State University campus.
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Saildrone uncrewed surface vehicles to the NOAA weather buoy rescue
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostUntil two weather buoys in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico are back online, Saildrone USVs are collecting and sending ocean data with climatologists and weather forecasters around the world to help monitor weather and the impact of climate change.
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AgricultureMachine Control & RoboticsOff Road
Raven helps drive CNH Industrial autonomous farming ambitions
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostThe U.S.-based leader in precision agriculture technology acquired in November will help CNH deliver smarter equipment to solve customer challenges and make their work easier via plug-and-play automation and autonomy and a full suite of digital services.
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Ottonomy closes funding round, announces Ottobot 2.0
by Kevin Jostby Kevin JostNew investments from Connetic Ventures and others will enable the autonomous robotics delivery startup to develop its business and launch the latest version of its fully autonomous robot as it looks to rollout to airports, curbsides, and last-mile deliveries.